What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. This week on Founders Journal, we're doing things a little differently.

We are dropping our second mini-series ever all about how to build your team.

Instead of just one episode Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week, we're giving you two.

A new show that you won't want to miss, plus a classic episode you maybe haven't heard before.

You're listening to a classic episode right now, number three in the series, but make sure you

catch today's new episode as well. All of these shows together give you the tips and tricks you

need to build your dream team. If you missed one and two on Monday, go back and check those out.

Today, we are talking about the importance of building relationships with potential employees.

Let's hop into it.

So, I was talking to a candidate for a writing role at Morning Brew earlier today.

It was for one of the editorial roles related to our paid product.

I was chatting with him and I just really enjoyed the conversation. He was sharp,

he had a great sense of humor, he had multimedia content experience, so audio, video and social,

and he refers to himself as a human Swiss Army knife, and he just generally seemed curious and

excited to find ways to constantly be a better version of himself as a person and a professional.

And so, what I said to him at the end of the conversation was that we'll keep him updated on this role,

and either way, we'll let him know whether we'd like to move forward or not,

but regardless, we should keep the conversation going because I thought he'd be a great fit for the brew.

And this made me think about how far too often as managers, as founders,

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